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Magic The Gathering: Older Sets White-Borders / Black Borders?
This is something I should probably already know after years of playing, but for some reason have never paid much attention.
I have cards from Arabian Nights, The Dark, Legends and Antiquities. Some cards are black-bordered and some are white-bordered; all English.
Obviously most M:TG sets are either one or the other, but for some reason among these earlier sets, there is a mix between black-and-white bordered cards even within the same set.
Anyone know the rhyme-or-reason behind those that are white bordered and those that are black-bordered in Arabian Nights, Legends, The Dark and Antiquities?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
My experience is that White-bordered cards always came from the Core Set theme decks, but I'm not sure if that's the only reason.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Core sets are white-bordered. "Expansion" sets are black-bordered. No two cards from the same set will have different borders - you have to keep in mind that some cards are printed several times, and that means they can have different borders. If they have different borders, they're from different sets.
Alpha and Beta have black borders, however. They break the chain, as they're considered Core sets.
Also, newer Core sets (10th and beyond) now have black borders. And not white.
- ErikaLv 45 years ago
properly, the least perplexing answer to this question is: What instruments are allowed interior the experience? White bordered enjoying cards are in basic terms launch specifically MTG instruments, like 4th version. Tournaments consistently have a itemizing of the instruments that they are going to enable enjoying cards from. for occasion, a sort 2 experience will in basic terms enable enjoying cards from Shards of Alara, Zendikar, and the 2010 center set, M10. What defines which instruments are form 2? on each and every occasion a clean MTG Set is released, an older set would be moved out of experience block. To be extra precise, on each and every occasion a clean set block is released. MTG instruments are released in 'blocks', as an occasion, Zendikar block incorporates the instruments Zendikar, Worldwake, and upward thrust of the Eldrazi. while the latest MTG set block, Scars of Mirrodin, comes out in october, Shards of Alara enjoying cards will now no longer be waiting to be utilized in T2 tournaments. i wish this helped :)
